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Let The Children Alone

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Day
5
Month
August
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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Let your children aloue when they linthor around the t'amily tnble. I( in a cruclty to Iiamper thetn with mauifolil rules and regu'ations about this, and that, and tho othcr. Aa long as thcir oondiiüt ie harrnlocs ns to othera, entourage them iu their oheeriness. If they do sniack thfir lipa, and their Btippings of niilk and other driuks eau De heard aiToes tho gtreut, it does not faurt the strcet ; let them alone. What if they do take thcir oopwith the wrong end of the furk, it is all tho sanio to the fork ; let them ilone. Snppoee a child does not sit m straight na a rumrod at the tnble ; supposo a cup ov tnmbler slips through ita little fiogsrs and dt'lugen tho pinte of fod bflow, and the'golilot is stnahed, and the table clbth is riiined, do not look a thousarul goowls and thunders, and scwe tlie poor thir.g to the bnluuce of its denth, for it wao tcared hlt to donth bcfore. It " didu't go to do it." Did you norer let a glflss slip through your fiogera lin ie vou nre grewn ? Instead of Pending tho child away from the talile in angor, if noteven with a th'reat, ior tlüs or nny other little notliing, be ai generous as yon woiild be to ;in eijnal or suporior Rucst, to whnm vi u wó"uld say, witb ;i muro or Icrs obsequii-f f milt' : " It's of no pogsibto eoi;e quonoe." Tbat would bft tho forin of expression cvl'Ii to a strange gu-st ; nnd yet to yóurown child you rfinors and revengefully, aud angrily, meto out a swift puniblniRiit, which for the linie iilmost breaks ice little beart ?.r.d belit des you amszingly. The proper and more cffiuient and more ohriatinn mutliod of meeting the miahaps and dölipquenüiea and npropri etica of your ebHdreo at the tablo is ci'hcr to take no notioe of them at the time, er to go further, and divert attention from them nt tho vcry instant, ii' poMÍble, or m;iko a kind of upology for thein. But, afterward.s, in m hour or two, or, beiter stilt, tbe net day draw the child's attntïon to the baalt, f fa uil it was, in a friendly and toviog inannér; point out tbe impioprii'ty in soine kind!y wy ; show wbere it was wrong or rudo, and appeal to tho child's respeet or manliness. This is the best way to correct all i'amily errors. Sometiincs it oiay not succoed; hometimes harah tneasures may be required ; bue try the dereoating or the kindly mothod with perfect equanimity of mind, and ftiilure will bo of raro oocurronce.

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Old News
Michigan Argus